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July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14
Microsoft backs cloud rival Google’s open-source Kubernetes project

Microsoft has joined rival Google to support the Kubernetes open-source project on its Azure platform
July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14
Satya Nadella to flatten Microsoft and reverse device strategy

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has sent out a memo to all 100,000 employees, in preparation for what is likely to be a major reorganisation
July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14
Open-E aims Jupiter DSS software defined storage at enterprise SAN

Open-E adds ZFS functions and scalability to take its DSS storage to the enterprise at a claimed 25% of the cost of storage array products
July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14
Wearable tech needs to be more fashionable, says Beecham

A recent paper by firm Beecham Research has found that technology companies do not have the right approach to wearable technology

July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14
IBM pumps $3bn in chip tech research to power future cloud needs

IBM will invest $3bn (£1.75bn) over the next five years in the research and development of chip technology to meet cloud needs
July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14
PC sales bounce back as XP drives hardware refresh

Desktop and laptop upgrades, driven by the migration away from Windows XP, has bolstered PC sales in Europe
July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14
UK leads in mobile adoption

UK businesses are getting a return on their mobile investments as they invest in technologies to underpin their digital strategies
July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14
EMC XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon get new CPUs and data services

EMC boosts XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon with Ivy Bridge CPUs and advanced data services including flash array snapshots
July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14
CIO interview: Bill Peters, head of IT, Caterham Formula 1 Group

Bill Peters, head of IT at Caterham, talks about the challenges of delivering IT to scientists, engineers and F1 drivers
July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14
Samsung profits fall as tablet market shifts

Samsung’s electronics business has seen weak earnings in the second quarter of 2014, dropping by around 25% from last year

July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14
Airbus deploys modular datacentre strategy to boost HPC capacity

The aircraft manufacturer has deployed HP's performance optimised datacentres (PODs) to increase its high performance compute capabilities for its engineers
July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14
Government invites tenders for Emergency Services Network

Incumbent Airwave Solutions among several businesses invited to tender on the four lots of the new Emergency Services Network
July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14
Top hardware firms join forces on IoT standards

Top hardware firms join forces to establish secure and reliable connectivity standards for the internet of things
July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14
Tablet sales to slow in 2014, says Gartner

Gartner findings show that sales of tablets are set to slow in 2014 as uptake moves into the late adopters phase in mature markets
July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14
SME IT staff buckling as IT consumerisation sends workloads soaring

IT professionals in the SME sector are buckling as trends such as the consumerisation of IT and shadow IT push workloads to unmanageable levels
July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14
Flat mobile batteries banned from US-bound flights

UK Department for Transport has announced that mobile devices with flat batteries will not be permitted on flights to the US amid new terrorism fears
July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14
Android is top choice as mobile business operating system

Android is the most popular operating system in business according to a new study from Frost & Sullivan
July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14
Microsoft and Google propose 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet networks for cloud datacentres

Technology giants including Microsoft and Google form a consortium to fire up datacentre networks’ performance for cloud-scale infrastructure.
July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14
Tour de France organiser deploys satellite phone system for UK stages

Tour de France organiser ASO selects Globalstar satellite phones to keep support and emergency crews connected during UK leg of tour
July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14
Survey: Storage budgets shrink while capacity balloons

451 Research survey finds storage budgets shrink while data volumes increase, as flash use becomes commonplace
July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14
Physical location of data will become irrelevant by 2020, says Gartner

The physical location of data will be irrelevant by 2020, replaced by a combination of location criteria such as legal, political and logical concerns
July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14
Case Study: Marston's Telecoms taps Blue Coat Wi-Fi manager

Marston’s Telecoms, the in-house ISP of pub and brewery chain Marston’s, rolls out Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances to take control of its onsite Wi-Fi networks and cut bandwidth costs
July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14
UK government recognises datacentre sector as a key economic contributor

UK datacentre industry has been officially recognised as a legitimate industry and a significant contributor to the economy, growth and jobs
July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14
Arctic University warms classrooms with waste datacentre heat

Tromso-based university uses liquid-cooled HPC systems to keep students warm by recycling excess datacentre heat, saving €1.7m
July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14
Connected cars standard by end of 2018

Juniper Research study finds integrated in-vehicle connectivity and apps will become standard in new cars by the end of 2018
July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14
Gartner: Now is a good time to buy IT

Pricing pressure has led to buyers getting a better deal from IT suppliers, according to Gartner analysts
June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14
European Commission inches closer to standardising cloud SLA guidelines

The European Commission has received a cloud SLA guidelines from service providers and industry bodies
June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14
IBM opens SoftLayer datacentre in London for local cloud customers

IBM opens a datacentre in Chessington, specifically for its SoftLayer cloud customers
June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14
Hybrid cloud powers business strategy for Notonthehighstreet.com

Notonthehighstreet.com deploys a hybrid cloud and DevOps strategy to grow, innovate and respond to business needs quickly
June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14
Facebook moves Instagram photos out of Amazon and into own datacentre

Facebook has moved all the user photos on Instagram out of Amazon’s cloud platform into its own internal datacentre and cut costs
June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14
Half of network equipment ageing or obsolete, survey finds

Dimension Data finds 51% of network devices near the end of their life as buyers take cautious approach to hardware refreshes
June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14
Skyera hits UK market with skyHawk all-flash arrays

All-flash array startup Skyera inks UK distribution deal that brings 1U MLC-based arrays to market
June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14
Intel's new lab in Swindon to fuel IoT projects

Intel has opened an IoT Ignition Lab in Swindon to allow UK enterprises to develop projects in retail and more
June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14
Intel unveils its most powerful chip, Xeon Phi, for supercomputers and HPC

At ISC 2014, Intel unveiled its next-gen chip, Xeon Phi, with an array of integrated hardware capabilities for HPC and supercomputers
June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14
Dell adds SC4020 as it edges towards iSCSI-FC unification

Dell ditches separate Compellent and EqualLogic branding with the debut of the Dell Storage SC4020 midrange SAN
June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14
Violin Memory puts advanced features in Concerto 7000 flash array

Formerly troubled Violin Memory's Concerto 7000 series puts replication, snapshots, CDP and WAN optimisation in an all-flash array
June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14
BBC sets up expert group of cloud controllers

The BBC has set up a central group of IT, security and user communities to manage its purchase and use of cloud computing
June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14
SanDisk to buy PCIe flash pioneer Fusion-io for $1.1bn

SanDisk to buy PCIe server-side flash pioneer Fusion-io for $1.1bn as part of push into the datacentre flash market
June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14
Symbian ransom shows risk in internet of things

The news that Nokia was held to ransom over a digital certificate should raise alarm bells in organisations with aspirations to digitise their business
June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14
Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud

eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself
June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14
Azzurri pushes enterprise contact centres into the cloud

Networking provider launches hosted cloud contact centre offering as part of its ICON services package
June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14
NetApp adds high-end FAS8080EX with all-flash array capability

NetApp adds flagship FAS8080EX with all-flash array options that can scale to 5.8PB
June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14
CIO Interview: Betfair's Michael Bischoff on making IT ready for Fifa World Cup

Michael Bischoff, the CIO of bookmaker Betfair, talks about the challenges in readying the IT for Fifa World Cup betting
June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14
Nimble Storage launches flagship CS700 hybrid flash storage

Nimble Storage tops off its CS hybrid flash storage products with high-performance CS700 range
June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14
Datacentre spending shifts to Europe as buyers focus on low-cost servers

Server manufacturers made 20% less in sales in the first quarter of 2014, compared with the fourth quarter of 2013
June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14
HP launches new products for software-defined datacentres

HP has launched networking, HPC, storage and converged infrastructure products
June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14
Manufacturer boosts bandwidth with Silver Peak WAN optimisation

Symphony Group gets 50% bandwidth boost and cuts RPO from hours to seconds with Silver Peak VRX-4 WAN optimisation
June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14
Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters

Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges
June 09, 2014 09 Jun'14
Smart meter IT costs set to escalate as rollout ramps up

Cost of IT is set to skyrocket as the UK’s smart meter rollout ramps up due to suppliers buying in IT consultants
June 09, 2014 09 Jun'14
Home Secretary Theresa May unveils datacentre in Maidenhead

Home Secretary Theresa May has opened a multi-million-pound extended datacentre, owned by UK cloud firm iomart
June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14
Cloud impact can be as big as the advent of computing itself: EIU report

Cloud is not just a replacement for older computing platforms, but a change as revolutionary as the advent of computing itself, says EIU report
June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14
Green Mountain builds tier III datacentre in Norway to lure financial services firms

Green Mountain has built a tier III, hydro-powered facility in Norway to attract enterprise customers, including financial services firms
June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14
Fusion-io Atomic Series PCIe cards double server flash capacity

Server-side flash pioneer Fusion-io has launched a new range of PCIe server flash cards, the Atomic Series, which double their capacity by using the latest-generation NAND flash chips
June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14
G-Cloud is lacklustre and needs transparency, says industry body CIF

Industry body blames G-Cloud's lack of transparency for poor uptake of cloud by public sector organisations
June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14
Unsupported Windows XP still widely used

Two months since Windows XP support officially ended 25% of web users are still on the unsupported Microsoft operating system
June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14
VMware CTO hits back at AWS tool to manage virtual machines

VMware CTO Chris Wolf warns users against being fooled by tools disguised as hybrid cloud management as AWS launches administration portal
June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14
Busy Bees nursery virtualises desktops and servers to improve users' IT experience

UK nursery chain Busy Bees has made its IT scalable, mobile-friendly and easy to use by deploying Citrix products
June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14
IBM escapes SEC action on its cloud revenue reporting

US regulatory watchdog SEC will not take action against IBM following an investigation into how it reports cloud revenue
June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14
High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS

The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?
June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14
Met Office swaps Oracle for PostgreSQL

UK weather service the Met Office has started swapping Oracle for Postgre SQL in a strategy to deploy more open source technology
June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14
Tegile dives into all-flash array market with T3800

Hybrid flash maker Tegile enters all-flash market with T3800, and adds T3400 hybrid flash array with more flash on board
May 30, 2014 30 May'14
Software-defined everything will change datacentre design, function and price

Datacentres of the future will not be populated with products that perform individual functions as software-defined everything makes hardware irrelevant
May 29, 2014 29 May'14
BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad

British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready
May 29, 2014 29 May'14
HolSystems shuns flash storage for X-IO HDD arrays

US cloud provider HolSystems has deployed 60TB of X-IO spinning disk rather than flash storage to boost performance in the remote delivery of virtual servers
May 29, 2014 29 May'14
Universities debut £8.1m centre to develop laser and photonics data storage technology

Universities and industry partners launch centre to train researchers in developing laser technology and silicon photonics for big data storage
May 28, 2014 28 May'14
Cloud and datacentre warnings for CIOs

As cloud computing enters mainstream, datacentre and cloud experts warn CIOs about IT trends that are too big to ignore
May 28, 2014 28 May'14
Case study: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust deploys e-observation technology

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is deploying mobile observation technologies to monitor patient health
May 28, 2014 28 May'14
Huawei signs datacentre services MoU with BT

BT could become a major supplier of datacentre services to Chinese network giant Huawei after signing memorandum of understanding
May 28, 2014 28 May'14
Google AI improves datacentre energy efficiency

Artificial intelligence helps Google improve datacentre energy efficiency
May 27, 2014 27 May'14
Digital Single Market for cloud in Europe is crucial, says EC

Europe is moving towards a Digital Single Market for cloud to promote the uptake of cloud computing and reduce complexities
May 27, 2014 27 May'14
Apple calls for patent retrial to get bigger payout from Samsung

Apple has asked for a retrial in the hopes of increasing a $119.6m damages payout from rival Samsung
May 23, 2014 23 May'14
HP job cuts head towards the 50,000 mark as company tackles cost

A further 16000 jobs are set to go as HP continues to slash its workforce through a restructuring initiative which began in 2012
May 23, 2014 23 May'14
Microsoft overturns FBI request for enterprise user's data in Seattle court

Microsoft successfully challenges an FBI National Security Letter requesting data about one of the company's enterprise customers
May 22, 2014 22 May'14
Storage, business growth and virtualisation driving datacentre expansion

The top three drivers for datacentre capacity expansion in Europe are storage growth, business growth and virtualisation
May 21, 2014 21 May'14
Tablet banking to quickly overtake mobile banking

The number of people in Europe banking on tablets will grow at twice the rate of those on mobile phones, with security concerns not a major driver
May 21, 2014 21 May'14
Swale Heating emulates head office in national expansion

SE England based Swale Heating emulated its head office IT set-up in the Midlands when it expanded through a major contract
May 21, 2014 21 May'14
Microsoft targets MacBook Air audience with Surface Pro 3

Microsoft has unveiled its latest Surface Pro, targeting MacBook Air users and people who want a full-function tablet
May 20, 2014 20 May'14
HP debuts Orchestrated Datacentre to automate IT operations and delivery

HP launches its Orchestrated Datacentre service suite to help the IT department deploy the full stack and automate IT delivery and management
May 20, 2014 20 May'14
Cisco launches workspace collaboration devices and cloud service

Cisco has launched a range of collaboration devices, including the 24in touchscreen DX80 device, which features a built-in Android computer
May 19, 2014 19 May'14
SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure

From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure
May 16, 2014 16 May'14
Digital rights group lists best companies for data protection

Digital rights group examines technology giants including Amazon, Google, Yahoo, At&T, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Dropbox
May 16, 2014 16 May'14
CIO interview: Adecco UK sets global model

The UK operation of global recruitment company Adecco has created an IT infrastructure to make bit more agile in the face of increasing competition from small firms
May 16, 2014 16 May'14
Pure Storage adds entry-level and high-end FA 400 flash arrays

All-flash array maker Pure Storage adds entry-level and high-end FA 400 series arrays and upgrades Purity operating environment
May 15, 2014 15 May'14
More user control and freedom from lock-in will make cloud successful: Werner Vogels

Giving users more control and freedom from supplier lock-in will ensure cloud’s success in Europe, says Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels
May 15, 2014 15 May'14
Microsoft funds datacentre and cloud energy efficiency research projects

Microsoft has awarded $160,000 to four university projects focusing on cloud and datacentre energy efficiency
May 15, 2014 15 May'14
Oxford University gets 330TB of Panasas clustered NAS/HPC storage

Oxford University gets Panasas ActivStor 14 clustered NAS as HPC storage for high-performance processing
May 14, 2014 14 May'14
Object storage: An architecture for the petabyte era?

Object storage offers massively scalablility for unstructured data.. But can it break out of the niche it is in?
May 14, 2014 14 May'14
‘Real cloud’ is much more than cheap infrastructure, says Rackspace as cloud price war continues

Rackspace CTO warns cloud buyers of the dangers of buying cheap, raw infrastructure for their IT strategies as cloud price war intensifies
May 13, 2014 13 May'14
Quarter of Europe’s small businesses interested in mobile point of sale

Over a quarter of small businesses are interested in introducing mobile devices as a point of sale technology within six months as attitudes towards mobile point of sale (mPOS) change in Europe
May 12, 2014 12 May'14
Microsoft fleshes out cross-platform mobile strategy

Microsoft users should be productive on all operating systems, including iOS, Android and Windows, according to vice-president Brad Anderson
May 12, 2014 12 May'14
The digital CIO: How to be a digital innovator

CIOs need to think about their IT budgets in a different way to free up funds for innovation
May 12, 2014 12 May'14
IDC survey puts IBM, Cisco and HP ahead of AWS, Google and Azure for IaaS

IBM, Cisco and HP have been rated as the top three infrastructure as a service providers according to a study by analyst IDC.
May 09, 2014 09 May'14
Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility

Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network
May 08, 2014 08 May'14
Lawyers get Unitrends backup appliance for virtual server backup

Notts law firm Rothera Dowson moves from Symantec plus tape to Unitrends disk-based backup appliance for virtual server backup and cuts recovery time from days to minutes
May 08, 2014 08 May'14
Industry needs to do more to benefit from utility incentives for datacentres

Potential energy efficiencies from utility incentives cannot be realised without more efforts from datacentre operators and utility firms
May 08, 2014 08 May'14
Colt increases colocation datacentre capacity in London and Hamburg

The carrier-neutral datacentre and colocation facility provider, is increasing its datacentres in London and Hamburg by 2MW to meet Europe's datacentre demand
May 07, 2014 07 May'14
CIOs fear compliance and regulation over IT failure to tackle big data

As many as 87% of CIOs fear that failing to address their untapped intelligence will lead to issues with compliance and regulation, a research revealed
May 07, 2014 07 May'14
HP pumps in $1bn in open source and hybrid cloud services

HP will invest $1bn over the next two years on cloud-related products including an investment in OpenStack and is launching HP Helion too
May 06, 2014 06 May'14
Cloud is one of the 'most disruptive forces' in business in past 20 years: KPMG

A KPMG research report on the future of investment banking has concluded that cloud is one of the “most disruptive forces in business in the past 20 years”
May 06, 2014 06 May'14
Our datacentres are energy efficient and green too, says AWS

Amazon Web Services says it runs its facilities with energy efficiency in mind despite Greenpeace criticisms